Cohousing-L Mailing List: What is cohousing-L?

[Sharon Villines (sharonvillines]

> Regarding the polyamory discussion.  

I'm less concerned by prevalence than relevance. If only one person in a
cohousing community or thinking of joining a cohousing community is
concerned by an issue, that is a concern for everyone. I would just like to
see it discussed in the context of cohousing and in the context of a
specific example. Otherwise it becomes too general to be of much use.

Verna's statements on raising children were very specific and very clear and
very relevant to cohousing where children are raised, to varying extents, by
the community. As the mother of a white child and a black child, I see very
clearly even though my black child has been raised by the same parents in
the same middle class, affluent suburb that the white child was raised in,
and attended the same schools.  Each needed different skills to make it
through--neither child got all the skills they needed. Each would fare in
cohousing as they have in the world--very differently.

 A COHOUSING context is unique in that it is both more intimate than a condo
building or neighborhood and less intimate than a shared living situation.
The last difficult discussion was the anger discussion over the summer, but
to keep it on track, we were able to bring it back to original question--how
do we deal with this particular anger situation in our cohousing meals. I'm
not sure what the question is in the poly discussion.

Each community is different in its acceptance level and each person will be
treated differently depending on the expression of their personal
preferences in a million different areas. Restating this for weeks, seems
pointless.

Sharon.

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Sharon Villines
MacGuffin Guide to Detective Fiction
http://www.macguffin.net
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington, DC
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~takomavillag/